The Hungarian Defence Forces are returning to the borders for the summer months, Deputy Minister Szilárd Németh, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Ministry of Defence announced on 1 June, Saturday, in Budapest.
A community forum was held on Thursday, 9 May at the Radnóti Miklós Community Centre in Budapest’s 21t district of Csepel with relation to the upcoming European Parliament (EP) elections. At the event, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó and the Ministry of Defence’s Parliamentary State Secretary and Deputy Minister Szilárd Németh discussed the current situation in Hungary and Europe, migration, and the stakes of the elections.
Hungary and Montenegro see the security issues of both the region and the world in a similar light, Defence Minister Tibor Benkő highlighted after his talks with Montenegro’s defence minister in Budapest on Tuesday.
The National Scientific Students’ Associations Conference was held for the thirty-fourth time. At the opening of the military and law enforcement studies section, Defence Minister Tibor Benkő delivered a speech.
Minister of Defence Tibor Benkő and Croatian Defence Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Damir Krstičević signed a joint airspace policing agreement and a memorandum of understanding on the establishment of a multinational command on Monday, 8 April in Budapest.
Minister of Defence Tibor Benkő attended a meeting of UN defence ministers in New York.
“NATO has not lost its raison d’être, but on the contrary, it still plays a vita role in maintaining the security of the trans-Atlantic region today”, Minister of Defence Tibor Benkő stressed at the Hungary 20 Years in NATO conference in Budapest on Wednesday.
“Hungary and the region needs a strong and effective Hungarian Defence Force”, Minister of Defence Tibor Benkő said at his annual evaluation and task-setting meeting on Tuesday in Budapest.
“Migration is endangering the security of Europe to the greatest extent”, Minister of Defence Tibor Benkő said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI with relation to the fact that a summit of EU defence ministers will be held in Bucharest on Wednesday and Thursday of this week.
In the past few years, with the consolidation of the Hungarian economy, there has been more money also for defence, the Defence Minister stressed in an interview given to the Hungarian news agency MTI.